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Ceiling 100
Two mirrors
Weeping eye
Seats
turning them
Imago
Combat of gladiators
Berlin Wall with German Grass and Skies II
Root room
Self-portrait of Frans Floris and William Key with Tito, Caio and Vitellius
Ceiling 100
Two mirrors
Weeping eye
Seats
turning them
Imago
Combat of gladiators
Berlin Wall with German Grass and Skies II
Root room
Self-portrait of Frans Floris and William Key with Tito, Caio and Vitellius

Self-portrait of Frans Floris and William Key with Tito, Caio and Vitellius

Frans Floris; William Key

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Butera Palace

Butera Palace

Via Butera, 18, Palermo

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Frans Floris' work is among the most enigmatic in the Valsecchi collection. The panel is painted on both sides: on the side that was intended to be seen, the Flemish painter self-portrayed himself together with William Key, a fellow student of the Académie Lombard in Liège and three Roman emperors: Titus, Caio and Vitellius. However, the five men are also connoisseurs of antiquity: they open a box containing fragments of Roman sculptures, such as the Medici Venus or the Horse's Head. A mechanism still existing in the frame allowed to turn the table and see the back: here a Battle of the elderly seems inspired by the prints taken from the frescoes by Rosso Fiorentino in Fontainebleau. Floris had been in Rome in 1535 and in Liège, under the leadership of Lambert Lombard, he was the most promising of the Flemish 'young rebels' who believed in a renewal of painting on the basis of exchanges with the ancient. This remote dialogue with the Roman world, in which ancient and contemporary happily overlap, is now exhibited in the library of Palazzo Butera, in an installation designed by Giovanni Cappelletti that allows you to see both sides of the work.
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Title: Self-portrait of Frans Floris and William Key with Tito, Caio and Vitellius

Author: Frans Floris; William Key

Date: 1537

Technique: Oil on the table

Displayed in: Butera Palace

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